Google drops new Gemini model and it goes straight to the top of the LLM leaderboard Google is constantly updating Gemini, releasing new versions of its AI model family every few weeks. The latest is so good it went straight to the top of the Imarena Chatbot Arena leaderboard - toppling the latest version of OpenAI's GPT-4o. Google's AI: Gemini Takes the Crown with "Gemini-Exp-1114" Previously known as the LMSys arena, it is a platform that lets AI labs pit their best models against one another in a blind head-to-head. The users vote but don't know which model is which until after they've voted. The new model from Google DeepMind has the catchy name Gemini-Exp-1114 and has matched the latest version of GPT-4o and exceeded the capabilities of the o1-preview reasoning model from OpenAI. The top 5 models in the arena are all versions of OpenAI or Google models. The first model on the leaderboard not made by either of those companies is xAI's Grok 2. The s...